I am currently having trouble getting a ZipOutputStream to correctly encode xml files in UTF-8 under certain circumstances.
Here's the relevant code:
public void saveQuest(File selectedFile) {
try {
ZipOutputStream out = new ZipOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(selectedFile + ".zip"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
out.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(".data"));
out.write(quest.getConfigAsBytes());
for (String scene : quest.getSceneNames()) {
out.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(scene+".xml"));
out.write(quest.getSceneSource(scene).getBytes());
}
out.flush();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {out.close();} catch(IOException e) {}
}
The code zips all the xml files as well as a data file in UTF-8. But only as long as I run it in my Eclipse-IDE. As soon as I put it into a runnable jar and run it outside of Eclipse it is no longer able to write the files in the UTF-8 encoding.
Information that might be helpful:
The code is from an old maven project and I have set the compiler to Java 1.8. But as I have no real experience with Maven I do not know if something else is going awry around there.
This is my first stackoverflow-question and as you guys can probably see, I'm not all that experienced. If I have forgotten to provide any other essential information, please let me know.
You're calling getBytes() without specifying the encoding, which is probably the source of your problem.
Never call String.getBytes() (or new String(byte[]) for that matter), as it happily uses the platform default encoding, which isn't guaranteed to always be what you expect as you've found out.
Change quest.getSceneSource(scene).getBytes() to quest.getSceneSource(scene).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8) and fix your quest.getConfigAsBytes() so it doesn't return just any bytes, but UTF-8 bytes.